Moggies

03Jan11

Happy new year! My plan for 2011 is to make plenty of different comics and to acquire a moggy.

I’m about to finish the drawings for a new project and construct a website for my future comics – but for now, here’s a sketchbook page from last year.

Cats from my sketchbook

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Tags: 2011, cats, drawings, moggies, new year, plans, sketchbook

My comic #27

09Jun10

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Tags: candle, comics, fading, ghost, headless, knight, library, night, roof, searching, skeleton, vanishing

My comic #26

18Apr10

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Tags: cat, comics, disintegration, fading, ghost, ghost-hunter, headless, hideout, knight, lair, ping, shield, skeleton, underground, vaporising gun, woe

My comic #25

04Apr10

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Tags: cat, comics, fading, gatecrashing, ghost, ghost-hunter, headless, hideout, knight, lair, masks, owl, party, skeleton, underground, vaporising gun

Thank-you

28Mar10

Thanks to those at the Comix Thing in east London yesterday who bought my work and said kind words. It was an encouraging and exhausting day!

Here is what is afoot with the comic: the strips will continue a week from now (4th April) with #25. I have a few weird storylines in mind and I’m keen to pick up the pace.

Watch out for the new strips and other work between them.

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UK Web & Mini Comix Thing

24Mar10

On Saturday I’ll be exhibiting at the UK Web & Mini Comix Thing in Mile End, east London. I’ll have that new book available to buy there, of course. Do come over to table 52 (which I’ll be sharing with the excellent bird) and say hello.

The Thing is in the Great Hall at Queen Mary college, from 10am until 5pm this Saturday 27th March.

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Tags: book, comics, fair, thing

Shop

21Mar10

I’ve updated my shop with some new items – chiefly a splendid book collection of the first twenty-four strips of my comic. This is your chance to read the thrilling early adventures of Lionel the ghost and Henry the skeleton in glorious colour, on silky pages between a handsome cover.

 
 

Looks pretty fancy, I reckon. Worth snapping up at £4 from my shop, perhaps. There is also a new set of fashionable badges, featuring four characters from the comics:

The pack of four is £3 in the shop. Finally, I’ve got some new postcards of a few of my drawings, and I’ll write kind words to you on the back of one if you buy my stuff!

Both the book and the badge pack are fairly limited editions. The shop has been sold out of all of my older books for a while now, but I’ve plans to keep it rolling with small new works in limited editions from now on. Watch out for the first eight-page one-off mini-comic in the next few months…

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Tags: badges, book, cat, comics, ghost, ghost-hunter, library, postcards, shop

The Name of the Rose

01Mar10

I recently entered the Venus Febriculosa contest to design a book cover for Umberto Eco’s novel The Name of the Rose. Here is my design:

The book involves a series of peculiar murders in an Italian abbey in the 14th century. Amongst that, it’s full of philosophical and liturgical tangles, semiotic codes and dozens of other threads, so it’s a rich, knotty thing to create a cover for.

I built my drawing around a armillary sphere, a mechanical model of the celestial structure. One of those features in the plot, but the object also seemed to resonate with ideas of wisdom and knowledge in the middle ages. Between the orbit rings I have glimpses of various elements of The Name of the Rose, like a church door depicting some demons, and a truffle hunt.

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My comic #24

12Feb10

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Tags: cat, comics, conversation, egyptian, gatecrashing, ghost, ghost-hunter, hand, headless, hideout, knight, lair, library, masks, mummy, owl, party, paw, skeleton, undead, underground, zombie

My comic #23

08Jan10

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Tags: bouncer, comics, deceit, ghost, ghost-hunter, guestlist, hideout, invitation, lair, librarian, library, party, skeleton, spider, underground